We don't actually have to wait that long you know, we can just start a second game, its not like its that time consuming at the moment (don't know if it gets more complicated in the future tough, but i doubt it)
Eventually you might want to start micro-managing your Artillery, Railguns and Battleships to bombard the enemy at the right times, but even then it seems like its more setting the plans in motion and watching them play out than constantly clicking and changing stuff.
I'm all for making a 30 player game. Maybe do a quick poll here to see if anyone wants to play, and depending on if we get enough people then we can decide if we want to make it public or private and whether or not we want to team up as the Forgotten Hope Alliance and bash people or if we want to see how the politics play out naturally.
For the record, the 30 player map includes at least parts of North America and more of the Middle East and Africa.
By the way, it seems like everyone has or is building a harbor right now. Some of those placements are odd (Cagliari, Sevastopol). You do know that you can hover the province's city and a little thing pops up that you can build from, right? If your province has multiple places suitable for a harbor, more than one harbor option will pop up in that menu and an arrow will point to each place as you mouse over the options. If you build straight from the province window (that shows the graphical representation of the the city), I'm not sure that you can choose which place you will build your harbor. The placement in Cagliari is especially very odd in that it seems almost useless where it is, where it might have been better on a different water access point...